Commercial label



0. N. MORRIS. OOMMERGIAL LABEL.

No; 38,692. Patented May Z6, 1868.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES N. MORRIS, OF- CINCINNATI, OHIO.

COMMERCIAL LABEL.

Specification forming partof Letters Patent No. 38,692, dated May 26, 1863 antedated February 9, 1863.

To alt'whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES N. MORRIS, of the city of Cincinnati, in' the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented'a new and improved article of manufacture entitled a Commercial Shipping lag or Direction-Label, and I do hereby declare the following to be a full and exact description i wood when prepared being utilized-to form commercial shipping tags or'direction-labels. as will be hereinafter described. For this purpose I prepare small billets A-soft wood. preferred--of the size represented in the drawing-say, five inches in length by an inch and a half in width and one-eighth or a quarter of an inch in thickness, (more or less)--perforated at one end, as shown at b, for the purpose of attaching the same to an article of merchandise or other article to be transported. A number of .billets having been cut out in the form shown are then subjected to the action of boiling-hot water-a suflicient time to drive the sap from the wood, and thereafter dried.

They are then sized with a solution of indie.- rubber, the sizing or coating being applied, by preference, in a heated state upon their entire surface in order to cause the rubber to thoroughly penetrate the pores of the wood,

the sizing tor this purpose being made quite thin. After drying, the billets are then subjected to a coating of paris white or white lead, softened with benzole, the properties of which are such as to cause its penetration into the wood and the effectual filling of any of the pores of the wood which may not have been filled with the previous coating of the rubber, and also giving to the exterior of the billets a smooth,ieven surface for the reception of the -ink used for the direction uponthe labels.

Commercial labels thus prepared may with equal facility be impressed with printers ink by the use of the common metal type or be written upon with the ordinary pen and ink, and still be free from any liability of the ink to blur or spread upon the surface of the label. Aside from this, the wood is thus rendered water-proof, so that any subsequent exposure to dampness will not have the effect to open the. pores of the wood, absorb moisture, and

thus cause a .defacement of the label.

Labels for commercial use, especially when made of paper or linen clot-h, if kept dry, are

liable to crimp and curl up under the ac= tion of the suns rays or heat, and, on becoming wet, are rendered useless by the permanent defacement of the label from such cause. [n my case no such objections exist, the labels always retaining their original plane surface,

and effectually resisting the deteriorating effects incident to atmospheric exposure of the paper or linen label.

- In place of the coating of rubber, as above described, a coating of glue and water, quite thin, may be used togood advantage, applied,

by preference, in a heated state.

My commercial labels thus prepared are far cheaper than any other label for like purpose possessing the same advantages with which I. am acquainted. I

Having thus described my invention, I claim- 'A commercial-tag or direction-label, pre

pared in the manner and for the purpose sub-.

stantially as set forth.

Witness my hand an'dseal in the matter of my application for a patent for improved commercial-label this 18th day of July, A. D. 1862.

CHAS. N. MORRIS. [L. s.]

Witnesses GUSTAVUS DIEl ERIGH, EDWIN S. JACOB. 

